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BECKY MAUPIN: Overwhelmed Doesn’t Mean Ungrateful

If you’re on social media for any amount of time, you pretty quickly see that there is mixed content. Some of it is positive and gives you really good...

BOB BROWN: When the Underdog Bites Has Rabies, and a Mean Owner

We have a strong human urge to identify with the “underdog.” There is nothing new...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part II

Unfortunately, Trump’s present ceasefire as of October 9 is analogous to the armistice signed between...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part I

Phase one of Trump‘s twenty-point peace plan in the Gaza Strip, which began on October...

FRED FIRST: Approaching the Longest Night

Yes, you’re right—if you’ve even noticed—that this space has been neglected for some weeks now,...

Why I Quit My Bleepin Job

by Robert Adcox Great things happened in 2006. The Steelers won their fifth Super Bowl. My credit score improved a lot. I finally had...

Late Summer on the Gaspe Peninsula

by John Robinson Twenty-two hours of driving from Virginia will get you well into Quebec. Of course, we had that problem with the blown...

Vegetables – Gone To The Dogs

by Mary Jo Shannon Last week my husband Harry and I enjoyed a surprise visit with my brother Frank and his wife Delores who...

Dragonfly Pest Control: A Free Global Service

by Fred First Even after being a biology watcher for decades, I learned something very interesting a few years ago when I chanced upon...

Music Takes Us Back and Moves Us Forward

by Joe Kennedy When the earth moved last Tuesday afternoon,  I did what Americans do -- I tried to  decide whom to blame. I've...

In Pursuit of Manners

by Keith McCurdy What is the biggest problem with kids today?  When I ask that question to a group of parents, I get many...